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It is the late 1930s in Europe and the darkness is gathering. The Nazis are marching, both inside Austria and outside. What can one man do to make a difference?
Alex Kovacs can see what’s coming – he can, all of his friends can, all of Vienna can. When an opportunity presents itself, a chance to thwart the Nazi invasion of Austria, he agrees to join an espionage network that will take advantage of his regular business trips to Germany to gather secret information. But a personal tragedy soon complicates Alex’s mission and entangles him with a suspicious Gestapo captain in ways that he never anticipated.
Vienna at Nightfall is the first book in the Alex Kovacs historical espionage thriller series. If you like to explore the world inhabited by Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther or the characters created by Alan Furst, a place and time where looming terror and moral ambiguity live side-by-side, then you’ll love Richard Wake’s new pre-World War II thriller.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Esther
- 03-21-22
German words
I wish the Austrian places, streets, museums, buildings, shops etc were spoken in the German language
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- DnBF
- 01-27-21
Setup for the rest of the series?
I really wanted to like this book. It started off with something I thought was going to be a mystery, it wasn't. Just kind of something that happened in the background. This was just about a low level courier, and we never know what spy info he has or how his couple of spy trips actually helped or did anything. And then the book just ended. I assume this book is just a set up for the rest of the series where he moves up in the spy chain and becomes more involved.
The reading performance was good, and I was interested in the story of the Austrians situation prior to Germany's takover.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- The Curator
- 01-14-21
A slow build
This did feel very much like the prologue to a series. The characters are well set up and you can’t say nothing happens (spoiler-Germany invades Austria, Austria isn’t wholly sorry) with spy shenanigans and so on, it’s just that none of them felt like they were meant to be the dramatic climax. It was fine and I will keep an eye out for the next one.
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Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz - nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina’s Juan Perón gave them safe harbor and new identities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nazi Hunters
- By Renee Wilson on 04-13-20
By: Joseph Kanon
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Zoo Station
- John Russell WWII Spy, Book 1
- By: David Downing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent over a decade in Berlin, where his son lives with his mother. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as World War II approaches, he faces having to leave his son as well as his girlfriend of several years, a beautiful German starlet. When an acquaintance from his old communist days approaches him to do some work for the Soviets, Russell is reluctant, but he is unable to resist the offer.
By: David Downing
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The Tourist
- A Novel
- By: Olen Steinhauer
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,664
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,098
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,092
In the vein of John le Carré and Graham Greene, this contemporary international thriller follows Milo Weaver as he is drawn into a conspiracy that links riots in the Sudan, an assassin committing suicide, and an old friend who's been accused of selling secrets to the Chinese. Once the CIA and Homeland Security are after him, the only way for him to survive is to return, headfirst, into Tourism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book not for dummies
- By Tim on 03-23-09
By: Olen Steinhauer
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Walking the Perfect Square
- A Moe Prager Mystery
- By: Reed Farrel Coleman
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 114
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 114
Recently retired due to a freak accident, NYPD officer Moe Prager is lost. In pain and without the job he loves, Moe relunctantly settles on the notion of going into the wine business with his brother. But when a suburban college student vanishes off the streets of Manhattan, Prager's universe is turned upside down and his life changed forever. Hired by the student's desperate family, Moe plunges deep into the world of New York's punk underground, sex clubs, and biker bars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clever, Interesting, Satisfying
- By Ted on 06-12-12
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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
- A Rabbi Small Mystery, Book 1
- By: Harry Kemelman
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 722
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 655
Young and unassuming Rabbi David Small sorts through puzzling pieces of mysteries with logic straight from the Talmud. In Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, a shocking discovery on the temple grounds threatens to ruin both the diligent rabbi and the entire Jewish community at Barnard’s Crossing. Unaware that his congregation is grumbling about his rumpled appearance and absent-minded manner, Rabbi Small spends long hours poring over scholarly books.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I slept late too, because i was up late listening.
- By DARBY KERN on 12-19-12
By: Harry Kemelman
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Murder in E Minor
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery
- By: Robert Goldsborough
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 270
Ever since disgraced associate Orrie Cather’s suicide, armchair detective Nero Wolfe has relished retirement in his Manhattan brownstone on West 35th Street. Two years after Cather’s death, only a visit from Maria Radovich - and the urging of Wolfe’s prize assistant, Archie Goodwin - could draw the eccentric and reclusive genius back into business. Maria’s uncle, New York Symphony Orchestra conductor Milan Stevens, formerly known as Milos Stefanovic, spent his youth alongside Wolfe as a fellow freedom fighter in the mountains of Montenegro.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 02-02-22
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Dust
- By: Ann McMan
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 166
When it comes to finding dirt, Evan Reed is the best in the business. She’s a “dust-buster” - a paid operative hired by political campaigns to vet candidates for national office. She’s also a foulmouthed and cranky ex-Catholic - attempting to raise a 14-year-old daughter on her own. When she is hired to investigate the background of a squeaky-clean and charismatic junior senator who might just be the next president, the last thing she expects to uncover is a murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you like Hoosier Daddy...
- By Amazon Customer on 11-22-18
By: Ann McMan
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- By: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 860
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 762
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 761
The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
- By Adeliese Baumann on 11-19-14
By: Georges Simenon, and others
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1979
- Allie Burns, Book 1
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4 out of 5 stars 83
The year started badly and only got worse - blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else's bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and the year is ripe with possibilities. But Allie is a woman in a man's world. Desperate to get away from the "women's stories" the Glasgow desk keeps assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not my cuppa
- By Donna on 10-08-21
By: Val McDermid
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How to Find Your Way in the Dark
- The Sheldon Horowitz Series, Book 1
- By: Derek B. Miller
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely wonderful story.
- By George Thomas on 12-11-21
By: Derek B. Miller
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The Best of Our Spies
- Spy Masters, Book 1
- By: Alex Gerlis
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 621
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 614
France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the liberation of Europe is under way. In the Pas-de-Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Kind of Spy Story
- By Linda Hanson on 01-11-16
By: Alex Gerlis
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The Unspoken
- Ashe Cayne, Book 1
- By: Ian K. Smith
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 705
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Story4 out of 5 stars 640
After refusing to participate in a police department cover-up involving the death of a young black man, Chicago detective Ashe Cayne is pushed out of the force. But he won’t sit quietly on the sidelines: he’s compelled to fight for justice as a private investigator. When a young woman, Tinsley Gerrigan, goes missing, her wealthy parents from the North Shore hire Cayne to find her. As Cayne looks into her life and past, he uncovers secrets Tinsley’s been hiding from her family. Cayne fears he may never find Tinsley alive.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too many street details
- By La Smurf on 10-16-20
By: Ian K. Smith
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The Fifth Column
- By: Andrew Gross
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4 out of 5 stars 127
February 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In a Hell’s Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage. His estranged wife and their six-year-old daughter, Emma, now live in a quiet brownstone in a German-speaking New York City neighborhood where support for Hitler is common. Charles, just out of prison, struggles to put his life back together, while across the hall from his family, a kindly Swiss couple have taken a liking to Emma. But Charles begins to suspect that they might not be who they say they are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Andrew Gross is the Master of Historical Thrillers
- By shelley on 09-14-19
By: Andrew Gross
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Fortune Favors the Dead
- A Novel
- By: Stephen Spotswood
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 142
It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Stick with Rex Stout
- By Jeffrey P Rowland on 01-14-22
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Deborah Hazlett
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,469
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,174
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,166
Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- By connie on 02-19-12
By: Laura Lippman
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The Company
- A Novel of the CIA
- By: Robert Littell
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 41 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,392
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,299
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,298
"If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel," says Tom Clancy, "he should have." In this spectacular Cold-War-as-Alice-in-Wonderland epic, Littell, "the American le Carre," takes us down the rabbit hole and into the labyrinthine world of espionage that has been the CIA for the last half-century. "Ostensibly a single novel, The Company can also be listened to as an anthology of cracking good spy stories," says ( Publishers Weekly).
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Review of the Reviews
- By Matthew on 03-31-04
By: Robert Littell
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The Sins of the Fathers
- By: Lawrence Block
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall